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Michelle Nixon
Biography
While Michelle Nixon has been an active participant in bluegrass circles for years, her career took an upward turn when she and her band, Drive, released It's My Turn on Pinecastle Records in 2003. Like a number of other female singer/songwriters on the bluegrass-country circuit, she has shown herself capable of reaching young listeners while retaining a healthy respect for tradition. "For Michelle Nixon," wrote Joe Ross in Country Review, "bluegrass is a meaningful music that has remained real. She sings it because she loves it." Nixon also gives top billing to her band, Drive, acknowledging that making good music is a family-style partnership. "Well, without drive in your bluegrass," Nixon told Bluegrass Music Profiles Magazine, "I feel it is quite boring and that is something we feel we have -- so what better name than Drive?"

Nixon was born Michelle Denice Thurston in Goochland, VA, in the late '70s. By the age of 14, she was already singing gospel and country with a number of Virginia-based groups including the Silver Dollar Band. Nixon built her own vocal style by following in the footsteps of country music queens like Loretta Lynn and Emmylou Harris.
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